BACKGROUND Failed or difficult tracheal intubation is an important cause of morbidity and mortality during anesthesia. Although a number of fiberoptic devices are available to circumvent this problem, many do not allow manual control of the flexion of the tip and necessitate time-consuming preparation, special training, or the use of an external light source. To improve these limitations, the a...

In this paper, we propose the design of multilayer frequency selective surfaces (FSS) waveguide band-pass filters (WBPF). The WBPFs are designed to operate at two different frequency channels, respectively 71–76GHz (Rx) and 81–86 GHz (Tx). The cross section surface of the FSS is imposed by the WR12 waveguide rectangular section’s dimensions. The WBPFs are inserted symmetrically in a T-junction ...

Chromosomal fragile sites (FSs) are loci where gaps and breaks may occur and are preferential integration targets for some viruses, for example, Hepatitis B, Epstein-Barr virus, HPV16, HPV18, and MLV vectors. However, the integration of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Giemsa bands and in FSs is not yet completely clear. This study aimed to assess the integration preferences of HIV in ...

A formal treatment of typed feature structures (TFSs) is developed to augment TFSs, so that negative descriptions of them can be treated. Negative descriptions of TFSs can make linguistic descriptions compact and thus easy to understand. Negative descriptions can be classified into three primitive negative descriptions: (1) negations of type symbols, (2) negations of feature existences, and (3)...

luid shear stress (FSS) induces many forms of responses, including phosphorylation of extracellular signal– regulated kinase (ERK) in endothelial cells (ECs). We have earlier reported rapid tyrosine phosphorylation of platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (PECAM-1) in ECs exposed to FSS. Osmotic changes also induced similar PECAM-1 and ERK phosphorylation with nearly identical kinetics....

Natural adaptation to femoral artery occlusion in animals by collateral artery growth restores only approximately 35% of adenosine-recruitable maximal conductance (C(max)) probably because initially elevated fluid shear stress (FSS) quickly normalizes. We tested the hypothesis whether this deficit can be mended by artificially increasing FSS or whether anatomical restraints prevent complete res...

This paper aims to implement what is referred to as the collocation of the Arabic keywords approach for extracting formulaic sequences (FSs) in the form of high frequency but semantically regular formulas that are not restricted to any syntactic construction or semantic domain. The study applies several distributional semantic models in order to automatically extract relevant FSs related to Ara...

BACKGROUND The Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) is widely used to assess fatigue, not only in the context of multiple sclerosis-related fatigue, but also in many other medical conditions. Some polysomnographic studies have shown high FSS values in sleep-disordered patients without multiple sclerosis. The Modified Fatigue Impact Scale (MFIS) has increasingly been used in order to assess fatigue, but...

Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) are predominantly passive electromagnetic filters formed by thin conducting elements on a dielectric substrate or periodic aperture elements in a conducting sheet. Depending on the type of elements (conducting or apertures), they exhibit bandstop or bandpass properties when excited with an incident electromagnetic wave. These filtering properties of FSS have b...

Abstract Background Little attention has been paid to customising fatigue questionnaires for patients with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs). The present study aims validate and shorten the nine-item Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS-9) Visual Analogue (VAFS) use this population. Methods We used data from a nested cohort annual health assessments responses on FSS-9 VAFS. During period 2016–2020, 917 wer...